Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Close the Observer-for once I will not be protesting

Am I bothered that GMG are considering closing the Observer?

Once I would have said yes,a rotten symptom of the current crisis in the media and how we must all fight to save the paper.

But actually I have fallen out of love with it and frankly its quality has gone down.

Often I will read less than half of it,its stories seem dry and a re churning of themes,its analysis apart from Andrew Rawnsley is lacking,its once lively foreign section has simply vanished.

Now it well may be that these are symptomatic of falling revenues but I wonder.

Since the newspaper industry made the leap to bumper Saturday editions,the Sunday market has been dying.Now Sundays are no longer the day of leisure spent perusing the papers.Frankly there is still a lot of Saturday's to read.

People have joined a face book group to stop the closure,there has been a campaign on twitter and yet I won't be joining them.

Maybe in this circumstance the natural course should take precedence

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